Who are we?

Hill Consulting is comprised of a group of quality, environmental, and IT professionals that have a combined 200+ years of experience in the automotive quality sector.  Each of us at or nearing retirement but still have a desire to help small or medium companies overcome their short term challenges at an affordable price. 

We have backgrounds with many Japanese OEMS including:

• Toyota
• Subaru
• Nissan
• Honda

We also have backgrounds with many leading tier ones or service providers including:

• Lear
• Toyota Boshoku
• Faurecia
• Johnson Controls (now Adient) 
• Treves
• Entela
• DNV
• BSI
• UL
• LSI

Our experience in commodities / process include: 

• Plastic/injection molding
• Steel/stamping
• Steel/welding
• Cloth/cut & sew
• Leather/cut & sew
• Cloth/ lamination
• Urethane /foam molding

As a group, our quality disciplines include: 

• Quality management systems
• Environmental management systems
• Information security management systems
• China CQC mark
• APQP / ANPQP process
• FMEA / control plan creation
• Subcontractor development
• TPM
• OEE
• Quality topics training
• SPC
• Torque control
• Destructive and non destructive testing (steel, welded parts, urethane foam, plastics, cloth and leather)
• Calibration  including long and short form gauge R&R
• Quality, environmental, and information security risk assessment
• Quality, environmental, and information security objectives & targets
• Internal/external corrective & preventive action / 8ds
• Customer interaction
• Containment, new model launch,  safe launch, EPC, GP12
• Short term sorting activities
• New part PPAP approval, PA approval, ISIR approval
• Bankruptcy mitigation

Quality management systems

• IATF 16949 certification is often required by most automotive OEMS
• ISO 9001 is a general quality management system that can be used by any type of commercial business
• ​Both systems, while called "Quality" management systems actually are a complete business management system that challenges your company to improve quality and a host of other measurables

environmental management system

• ISO 14001 is a general environmental management system that guides and challenges your company to lower your impact to the environment and often times reduces your costs
• Many automotive OEMS encourage their supply base to be certified

information security management systems

• TISAX labels "certification" is required by VW and now BMW, other OEMS will not be far behind
• ISO 27001 is a general information security management system that can be used by any type of commercial business

OUR GOAL

Is to partner with your company and leave it in a more competitive position than it was before we started

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